THAT's RIGHT—SAN JOAQUIN AUDUBON FIELD TRIPS ARE BACK We hope you will can join us. Just like the old days, except: 1) Masks, 2) social distancing, 3) don’t share optics. INTRODUCTORY BIRDING @ LODI L

Greetings As a reminder, San Joaquin Audubon has a few field trips planned for the upcoming weekends. This coming Saturday will be our introduction to birding trip at Lodi Lake. The following Saturday

San Joaquin Audubon and Friends This Tuesday, June 1, there will be a training session for the countywide Burrowing Owl Survey. We’d love to have you attend and volunteer to help with the survey. Topi

Went all over the County looking for a Hooded Oriole, turns out I could have just stayed at my house. Just had a first summer male Hooded Oriole in my Valley Oak! I was so surprised I was unable to ge

Birders: This morning there was an apparent adult Glossy Ibis in the flooded rice fields on Woodbridge Rd west of the crane reserve. It was mixed in with about 75+ White-faced close to the road and ob

Friends I’m fortunate to have a pair of Mockingbirds nesting in my Butterfly Bush. As the parents approach the nest I can hear multiple young begging to eat. While working in my garden I unearthed a f

Hi All, Tonight is the Wrap Up Zoom meeting for the DIY Bird May Scavenger Hunt. Join us and share your results on Zoom at 7:00 pm. The Zoom link can be found on sanjoaquinaudubon.org See you tonight!

For anyone interested, I will be visiting White Slough Wildlife Area tomorrow (Sunday) morning. If you would like to join me, meet me at the Flag City McDonald’s parking lot at 7:30 and we can figure

Pat & I had a great morning. We saw our first blue grosbeak for the year down on west end of the road. There are rice fields being flooded on both sides of the road. Near the silos & just east of the

I found an aberrant plumaged Red-winged Blackbird on Woodbridge Rd this afternoon. This partial albino/leucistic looks almost like a Pied Water-Tyrant, found in northern South America. However, since

Friends A reminder that tomorrow morning we will conduct a birding trip at the Mokelumne fish hatchery followed by a picnic and brief meeting. Birding will begin at 8am at parking lot 1, followed by t

Zoom link. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81628286636?pwd=K1BIOXdSOTlJY3ozZDgvUkQ1RzFFUT09 -- Alan England, Stockton

What is the link for tonight’s zoom meeting? Dave

Through the modern miracle of cut and paste, the location of this weekend's General Meeting and Picnic evaporated. Here's what our postings SHOULD have said: Annual General Membership Meeting and Picn

THREE BIG THINGS: 1) The May-June Chapter newsletter, the Hoot Owl, is available at: http://www.sanjoaquinaudubon.org/.../Hoot-Owl-May-Jun-21.pdf 2) Tuesday night May 11 at 7:00 pm is John Sterling's

The MacGillivray's was skulking low along the trail in the willows west of Faklis Park. Other bird highlights were one Yellow Warbler, two male Western Tanagers in the sun high in a cottonwood, and on

Birders, This morning Janet Theilen and I had a Baird's Sandpiper at the western portion of the Ripon WTP near the Jack Tone Golf Club. It was loosely hanging with Western Sandpipers along the south e

Just wanted to share - I birded Dentoni and Laughlin parks this morning. I was only able to find one Yellow Warbler, one BH Grosbeak, and one W Tanager at Dentoni, and one Yellow Warbler at Laughlin.

Birders This morning, SJ Audubon hosted our first field trip since the pandemic began. 7 birders joined me for a walk through the nature area. We found over 50 species, with the highlight being a floc

The oaks were hopping at Dentoni this morning. I found Nashville, Hermit, Yellow, and Wilson's Warblers. Pat P and I overlapped by about 5 min until he had to leave - he had Yellow-rumps and an Orange